In the News

Yesterday we had TV footage of a Chinese man who had never seen the sight of snow -let alone touch it. He lived in southern

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/proglacial-mega-myths/ ... we have an irreverent attempt to demolish the Ice Age story. It is also a swipe at the uniformitarian mind-set as he

A couple of years ago there was a TV documentary, 'True Appaloosas' about a journey by a New Zealand horse breeder, Scott Engstrom, when she

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/21/carbon-14-the-baikal-excursions/ ... this is an interesting read but not sure what to make of his train of thought. From the perspective of somebody highly

sticking to a watery theme, at https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/the-deluge/ ... Tim Cullen get to look at Noah and all that - and the fountains of the deep.

Under a covering of mica rich sand and sediment there are a surprising number of footprints - in what had been a field near Tucson

At https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2016/01/22/parting-pacific-pottery/ ... Tim Cullen is away on a new angle, similarities between Jomon pottery from Japan and the pottery of the Valdivia Culture in

At http://phys.org/print372520223.html ... it seems that coal was formed 300 million years ago just as Pangea was in the process of coming together - or

At http://phys.org/print372582577.html ... we learn that nesting grounds of sauropod dinosaurs are quite astonishly preserved in some parts of the world, some sites covering many

The Times, February 25th 2015, nearly a year ago, had a report on the Black Death - and Asian gerbils were said to be responsible.

It seems the 2015 El Nino may be mostly responsible for the warmth of global weather in November and December. This is the line adopted

Mammoths, or big elephants shall we say, are always a crowd pleaser which draws attention and the story at www.sciencenews.org/article/humans-visited-arctic-earlier-thought?tgt=nr .. where we learn a

Another one from www.sciencenews.org/article/atmospheric-tides-alter-rainfall-rate?tgt=nr ... the lunar gravitational pull increases rainfall when it is on the horizon but reduces rainfall when overhead or on the

Not very often I get a chance to post in the Mythology box but at www.sciencenews.org/article/no-fairy-tale-origins-some-famous-stories-go... ... which claims some fairy tales, such as Rumpelstiltskin

I saw this first at www.spaceweather.com January 20th but it has since spiralled on to lots of other sites such as www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/evidence-mounts-hidden-ninth-pla... ... Batygin and

Rens van der Sluijs continues his posts on people in the past that have mentioned electricity in space - see www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2016/01/11/current-models-of-the-sun-a-charged-... ... followed by part

Tornadoes are something that happens in N America - aren't they? Apparently, tornadoes, or whirlwinds as we tend to call them over here, are more

At www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/meet-the-archaeologists-making-ancient-rock-... ... yes, drones have been used to reach high parts of slabs of rock covered in etchings during a major exercise to map

At www.nature.com/news/cave-of-forgotten-dreams-may-hold-earliest-painting-... ...    The volcanoes on the cave walls at Chauvet (see above) lie in an inner gallery that was previously made famous by

Otzi. A lot of genetic studies have been done on Otzi the ice man (rescued from a melting Alpine glacier) - see http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2015-2016/article/new-discov... ... and